[If you don’t like it, you can skip it. Just wait until the relevant important plot comes later. Don’t say that there is no foreshadowing and it is too abrupt. 】

Jiao Shun only took half a day off, so naturally he still had to go to the Yamen to sit in court in the afternoon.

Because the flood season of the Yellow River has recently arrived, nearly half of the official duties handled by the General Affairs Department every day are related to the repair of dams, and they have to argue with the river yamen from time to time.

Fortunately, these matters do not require the Department of General Affairs to make the final decision. They only need to conduct a preliminary screening, call back those with obvious problems, and then classify the remaining ones, have relevant data attached, and send them to the relevant departments, offices, and

Just submit it to the Minister of Finance.

After reviewing more than a dozen official documents requesting funds for river embankment repairs and mobilizing supplies, Jiao Shun couldn't help but feel a little tired, so he dug out a few plans that interested him to cheer him up.

This first document is a summary of the results of the first phase of training for the major workshops in Gyeonggi Province.

Just as Jiao Shun expected, even if a large amount of exercise was conducted from the beginning for screening, only 20 to 30% of the total number of workers would give up halfway.

After all, the kids from big factories these days are the best soldiers.

Unfortunately, the number of places given by the ministry is limited, and after a short period of repairs, the second phase of elimination will have to be carried out.

…………

This evening.

In the compound of the picket team of the Andingmen Steel Plant, closed training continued for ten days, and finally ushered in a short rest period. After Chen Wansan announced that he would be disbanded on the spot, the young workers who had been holding back for ten days all worked happily.

Birds and beasts disperse.

The picket compound, which had been lively for a long time, quickly returned to its previous deserted state, as if the previous uproar had never happened.

Chen Wansan returned to his small courtyard, took off his light blue uniform and soaked it in the water. He thought he could wear casual clothes tomorrow, so he didn't rush to wash the clothes next to him.

The maid who works odd jobs in the factory goes to wash these two sets of uniforms. She has always done them herself.

He mixed half a bucket of cold water with the hot water he had soaked in the sun at noon, and was about to take a shower in the yard when Li Qing came in from outside in a hurry, and wanted to drink: "Hurry up, Lao Feng invites us to have flower wine.

Brother, I will take you to eat some meat today!"

Chen Wansan frowned and straightened his back, wondering: "Didn't Representative Feng just take in a concubine? Why do you still want to go out to eat wine?"

"Hey~"

Li Qing waved his hand indifferently: "You don't understand this. How can domestic flowers be as fragrant as wild flowers? Don't be nagging, Lao Feng has already gone to take a seat. It's not appropriate to keep him waiting for a long time!"

With that said, he urged Chen Wansan to go inside and change clothes quickly.

Chen Wansan hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head firmly and said: "I won't go to that kind of place. When my mother came here, she specifically told me to save money so that I could marry a wife - and the girl in the brothel didn't give me a child.

Son, I won’t give them free money!”

"You stupid head!"

Li Qing hated the irony and scolded: "Old Feng is treating us, and you don't have to spend money - we are not giving money away for free, we are here to have fun!"

"Then I won't go either!"

Chen Wansan still shook his head: "The teacher said, let's try to keep a bowl of water even, and we can't be biased..."

"Do I know this?"

Li Qing rolled his eyes and interrupted him angrily: "Zhu Tiju wanted to appoint his nephew as the team leader. Didn't I agree immediately? I'm close to both of them, so isn't it just a bowl of water?"

Chen Wansan also rolled his eyes. Li Qing's bowl of water was plain, which was obviously different from what he understood.

He knew that he was short-handed and short-handed. He couldn't persuade Li Qing, but he would never follow Li Qing's ideas.

Seeing that he had bitten him to death and refused to give Feng Chen face, Li Qing could only go to the appointment alone in frustration.

Chen Wansan closed the door and silently scrubbed himself.

Relying on Jiao Shun's intervention, he barely solved his worries.

There must be some dissatisfaction among the uncles and brothers, but Mother Chen feels that her son has tried his best to help, not to mention that this is the textile factory run by the emperor. If he is dissatisfied, he will be a wolf, so there is no need for Chen Wansan to come forward. Mother Chen will go first.

Everyone was scolded bloody.

Chen Wansan was grateful and naturally worked harder to make the picket team bigger and stronger.

Unexpectedly, these days, he started to feel confused again.

Li Qing's mind was not on training. He spent three days fishing and two days drying nets. He had already expected this and had already thought about how to persuade his old classmate.

But he never expected that the person who cared least about this training session would be military representative Feng Chen!

At least Li Qing helped formulate the training plan. Occasionally when Chen Wansan was too busy, he would temporarily put aside his plan to make friends with the factory leaders and stay in the picket compound to help.

Representative Feng, on the other hand, has completely acted as a hands-off shopkeeper. The longest time he stayed on the picket line was when he married his young wife seven days ago and came to post a message for Chen and Li.

Representative Feng was born in the military. I heard that he was a brave warrior in Qianxiang Country. He couldn't be so slack in training soldiers in the past, right?

Chen Wansan was puzzled by this.

Later, when he couldn't help but ask Li Qing for advice, Li Qing sneered at his idea: "What's so strange about this? Lao Feng has a lame leg and will never be able to fight in the battlefield again in his life. Now he is transferred to this steel plant to work

The supervisor’s future is not going to depend on this. No matter how well the picket team is trained, what use will it be to him?”

Chen Wansan was speechless, always feeling that this shouldn't be the case.

According to his simple values ​​and the benevolence of the court, Feng Baihu should be grateful and redouble his loyalty when he allowed the disabled Feng Baihu to come to the steel factory to be raised. How could he be so derelict in his duties?

"Otherwise I'll always say you're not enlightened!"

At that time, Li Qing patted Chen Wansan on the shoulder and said: "But it's good for you to do this. No matter what, there must be someone who can do things. With me taking care of things, we brothers can't suffer."

Since he said this was fine, Chen Wansan didn't ask any more questions. It was just that there was always a knot in his heart, so he refused to drink wine with Feng Chen. Anyway, Li Qing also said that his foundation was with his teacher.

.

Wow~

Seeing that the scrubbing was almost done, Chen Wansan poured the remaining half bucket of water on his head, threw the bucket aside, and took a towel and wrapped it from head to toe.

While I was busy, I suddenly heard someone calling the door from outside: "Captain Chen, is Captain Chen at home?"

Chen Wansan couldn't help but frown when he heard this voice, because the person who came was Sun Mingteng, the nephew of Zhu Tiju [eighth-grade official, equivalent to the factory director], and the only one close to him among the three team leaders.

Although 30% of the team members have been eliminated after the first stage of screening, there are still 86 remaining team members. In order to facilitate management, they have been temporarily divided into three groups, and each group has several subordinates.

Wu.

Gu Zi

Chen Wansan has never had a good impression of Sun Mingteng. He always felt that this guy was just talking and cheating. At that time, let alone the team leader, even the corps leader didn't want to take advantage of him.

But Li Qing tried to reason, saying that if there was no trustworthy person here, the factory would probably treat the picket team as aliens, which would be detrimental to the picket team's future work.

Chen Wansan had to compromise. Fortunately, the other two team leaders were selected according to his preferences. They were both honest, honest, willing to endure hardships and abide by the rules, and were not too slow to learn.

When he heard that it was Sun Mingteng calling the door, Chen Wansan did not rush to answer, but went inside to change his clothes, and then raised his voice to let Sun Mingteng in.

Unexpectedly, besides Sun Mingteng, there were two other team leaders who walked in after pushing the door open.

Chen Wansan was stunned at first, and then became more and more unhappy. He usually used Sun Mingteng as a negative example, but now the two team leaders were following Sun Mingteng closely, as if they were following Sun Mingteng's lead.

But after thinking about it, he didn't understand this. After all, Zhu Tiju was standing behind Sun Mingteng, and there were thousands of people in the steel plant. Except for a few people with legs, who would dare to compete with Zhu Tiju?

Go against it?

It's just that I understand, but I'm still a little disappointed in my heart.

Therefore, Chen Wansan did not lead anyone into the room. He pointed to the stone table and chairs in the corner and said, "Sit down and talk."

"Thank you Captain Chen for the seat."

Sun Mingteng cupped his hands with a playful smile and placed two bottles of wine and several oil paper bags on the table.

Chen Wansan glanced at it and asked suspiciously: "This is it?"

Sun Mingteng chuckled: "We heard that Captain Chen stayed alone at the picket line at night, so we thought we would come over and have a few drinks with you to relieve our boredom. The brothers bought them in Guanxiang, and they are not good wines or dishes. Don't choose.

We’ll be fine.”

If it were just him, Chen Wansan would most likely refuse him, but with the three team leaders here, and what Sun Mingteng had to say, if he declined, it would seem like he looked down on them.

So after a slight hesitation, he nodded and said: "I won't do this again, especially during training. If you dare to drink, don't blame me for being unforgiving!"

"Definitely, definitely!"

While Sun Mingteng was talking, he called to the two dull team leaders behind him to spread out all the oil paper bags, and he himself filled Chen Wansan's glass of wine.

The oil paper bag was full of meat dishes, which was quite suitable for Chen Wansan. After drinking a few glasses of water and wine, the atmosphere on the table immediately became lively.

While he was pouring the wine, Sun Mingteng asked with a smile: "Captain, I heard that the work drama was first rehearsed by you in the elementary school?"

The other two team leaders were busy picking up food, but when they heard the word "gongxi", their eyes lit up and they looked at Chen Wansan expectantly.

There are very few entertainment projects these days, not to mention that they are specially rehearsed for workers to watch?

In just half a year, Gong Opera has become more popular in steel plants, far surpassing Peking Opera and Kun Opera.

Chen Wansan subconsciously wanted to scratch his head, but he quickly stopped himself. He imitated Jiao Shun and spread his hands and said: "In this way, the cast of the play was indeed selected from among us at the beginning. It's a pity that I was stupid and didn't choose it - you, Captain Li, are the best."

I got the role of an arsenal steward, and I still have seven or eight lines of dialogue."

The two team leaders were a little disappointed when they heard this.
To be continued...